The China effect

First, a batch of tainted wheat gluten caused several pets to die and led to a major pet food recall. Then tainted beef from China made people sick. Then tainted green seasoning from China used by a Long Island company in its Veggie Booty snacks was contaminated with salmonella, causing a recall. Now, for the ...

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What an idiotic short sighted view. How much will prices go up to pay for the medical care , disability and injuries caused by shoddy products? How much extra will consumers have to pay to repurchace replacement items when inevitably shoddy workmanship causes the need to replace items sooner than well made items? Thinking only about short term monetary gain is childish–adults understand that you must also think about long term conseqences.

Corporate American doen’t cares what is in the food, how the product is made, what effect the food or product will have on the consumer, and lost of american jobs. all that matters is their bottom line. The consumer only looks at price which is their bottom line and our government does’t look at anything. Thank God we had the unfortunate death of animal’s which saved many human lives.

I have no idea why we are importing goods from a country that treats its animals horribly (live-skinning animals for the fur trade, beating dogs to death with sticks) and represses (to say the least) its people. Undoubtedly, the people are paid next to nothing for the work done. While the ignorant and corporate America doesn’t care, don’t you think we, as knowledgeable Americans, should care about this?

I have no idea why we are importing goods from a country that treats its animals horribly (live-skinning animals for the fur trade, beating dogs to death with sticks) and represses (to say the least) its people. Undoubtedly, the people are paid next to nothing for the work done. While the ignorant refuse to know (and corporate America doesn’t seem to care), we, as knowledgeable Americans, should care.

While I don’t relish the idea of paying more for the items I need, I have acknowledged that, for one reason or another, prices are bound to go up. That’s the truth. That we are running around (and in many cases, running up credit card debt) to purchase cheap Chinese made goods that harm our health and the health of our pets, is reason enough to rethink our buying habits. Isn’t it best to stop buying goods from a country that is proving itself to be uncaring and irresponsible? And if I can’t afford to buy as many things as a result of this decision to avoid Chinese made products, I’m okay with that. I can do without if I need to, and purchase less. The decision to purchase only what I need from countries (preferably, to purchase items made in THIS COUNTRY) who employ fair trade, manufacturing and labor practices… will probably save me money in the long run. You see, instead of purchasing many items made cheaply, I will purchase only a few items made well. Overall, I will purchase LESS not more. And that’s actually okay with me.